• Home
• About Us
• Petitions
• Email
• Store
• Log in
• Register

Immigration Bill: Congress Sent To The Corner By The American People

So, here we are: the immigration bill, obviously not knowing it was dead the first time, didn’t know to stay down, and had to be shot in the forehead a second time (I use this metaphor gleefully, as any mention of firearms and use thereof it surely will cause the left to defecate a bovine).

This post will not, however, be a (justified) celebration of the victory of the correct understanding of the law and of what makes a sovereign nation. It will be a criticism of what the Congress of the United States has become: a group of abhorrently arrogant, gut-twisting political opportunists whose vision and role is so narrow that it reduces us, the American electorate, to a mere means to stay in power.

There is enough blame to be passed around both the Dems and the GOP. For example, here is Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) whining about how we let the best thing since sliced bread slip through our unworthy fingers:

“To my Republican friends, remember this day if you vote no. You will never ever have this deal again. There will never be a merit based immigration system like we’ve negotiated because President Bush has helped us.”

If you thought that this sentence was actually addressed to his fellow Senators and not to the American public, then you’re probably one of those who would vote for Noam Chomsky as a write in for the next presidential election. Which begs the following question: how dare this little weasel tell us what laws we’re going to get in the future, as if the good ones were reserved for voters who behaved? Here’s a newsflash for him: you work for all of us, you pipsqueak, and you will damn well help enact the laws that have the support of the American people, and you will, I repeat YOU WILL trash the ones that positively suck. And the next time you throw a temper tantrum like this one, we the people will bitch-slap you out of office. Period. End of story.

Next on my s**t list is Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), who has this masterpiece of righteous indignation:

“I’m not going to call them commitments that were breached but that term might be used. Little strong to say that a senator broke his word and breached a commitment. Let me simply say that some said how they would vote and then didn’t. That’s an unusual occurrence in the United States Senate.”

I’m not going to call those words “politically expedient verbal turds designed to save face when face cannot be saved”, but those terms may be used. What Specter has done is basically the following: he is now berating methods that (and I’d be willing to bet a year’s supply of John Edwards’ hair conditioner/volumizer/follicle root treatment on it) he and all of his buddies in Congress have been using since day one of their holding office. It’s just that this time, he got his flabby politicking backside handed to him. I’ll tell him the same thing I tell my 10 year old when he doesn’t like being told the truth: “Deal with it, you piss ant.” (Actually, my 10 year old is not a politician, and he will never be if I have something to do with it, so I’ll never have to call him a piss ant).

Let’s not forget Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA), who seems to think that by virtue of the name he carries (thank your slain brother, without whom you’d be in jail after what you did to Mary Jo Kopechne, you malfeasant sack of bloated political pus), he is the guardian if all that is good and holy:

“Year after year we’ve had the broken borders. Year after year we’ve had the exploitations (sic) of workers. Year after year we see the people that live in fear (sic) within our own borders of the United States of America. This is the opportunity to change it. Now is the time.”

So let’s see here: our borders are broken, so let’s just erase them. Illegals are scared because they broke the law, so let’s just change the law in their favor, even if it means nullifying it. How stupid does he think we are? Oh and by the way, if any of you have ever seen Ted Kennedy on CSPAN speaking from the floor of the Senate, have you ever noticed how he just yells at the American voters who have the gall to disagree with him? Seriously, it’s hard to be more condescendingly insulting that when Ted seems like he had one too much to drink and he belts out all these sixties’ New Left old memes.

Some Senators, however, did get it right, at least at the end. To wit, John Kyl:

“It’s a sad commentary in America today that many Americans have lost faith in their government. The only group that has poll numbers less than the President (sic) these days is the United States Congress. Americans don’t believe that their government is representing them as acting on their behalf. The polls show it. On one of the most critical issues of our day we will not restore that confidence if we fail to act again.”

Yep, that’s pretty much the straw that broke the camel’s back (hope that metaphor offends every one of you over at CAIR). No support from the voting public, and still trying to shove crap down our throats like it’s a yummy sundae.

But then again, the left didn’t think it was wise to stop there (they never do, that’s why they are the left). Why did the bill fail? It’s because of all those evil radio talk show hosts, who spew their partisan vitriol and keep us, the people’s elected representatives, from conducting America’s business!

So here is a little memorandum to Harry Reid, the Edwards’s, Diane Feinstein and other assorted fascistic whiners:

We bloggers, along with our fellow radio talk show hosts, are here to stay. Just try to pass the fairness doctrine and see what happens. You’ll have such a maelstrom of fury coming your way, you won’t know what hit you.

You complain about Fox News being unfairly conservative: we have Fox, you have the 123 out of 145 journalists identified by MSNC.com who gave to the Democrats in some way, shape or form.We have Joe Scarborough, you have Keith Olbermann. We have Rush Limbaugh, you have Alan Colmes (twice actually, once on Fox News with Hannity, once on Fox radio with his own show). We have a predominance on talk radio, you have the entire higher education system. Somehow, even if you can’t or won’t see that, it all balances out.

You whine about the coarse discourse emanating from the right. Our apologies for not sounding like politicians who refer “to their esteemed friend and colleague from the other side of the isle”, but who really mean “that sonofabitch who is my political nemesis and whose career I’d crush in a second, along with dragging his name in the mud “. We don’t use doublespeak that can be manipulated when we get called on it. You actually have the humungous cojones to blame talk show hosts, and by extension not only those who agree with them, but bloggers as well, for the failure of the immigration bill. And then you wonder why your all around approval ratings are so low they couldn’t even jump up high enough to bite a flea in the backside.

We, the people, are your employers. No fairness doctrine will ever change that. Deal with it.

 Email This

Posted by RagingAnura on June 29, 2007 11:13 am

» Filed Under News

Trackback URL:

• Unpartisan.com Political News and Blog Aggregator: Senate Revisits Immigration Bill

Comments

Copyright © 2007 - Stop The ACLU
Based on the PSimple Theme Powered By Wordpress, Original theme created By Paggu

Twitter links powered by Tweet This v1.6.1, a WordPress plugin for Twitter.